A few notable quotes and discussion points from inside Browns’ headquarters on Wednesday as they held their first practice in preparation for the game Sunday vs. the Bengals…

• The Browns trailed by 17 in the fourth quarter last week in Indianapolis before rallying to lose by a field goal. They also gave up just three points in the second half in Week 2 at Baltimore. Let’s be honest; we’re searching for storylines and searching even harder for positives here. But the Browns are the only NFL team that hasn’t yet held a lead.

So, are slow starts an issue the Browns can fix along the way to turning their season around? They’ve gone three and out on the first possession of all three games, and in all three, they’ve left a rookie quarterback with marginal (at best) weapons in the passing game to try to mount a comeback.

“I put that square on myself and our staff,” Hue Jackson said. “We have to do everything we can to put (the players) in the best possible positions to have success, and we truly believe we are doing that, but we have to go back, look and make sure that everything we are doing is for the success of our players. I know we do. Sometimes it just doesn’t go your way. I think we know that. Then you make the adjustments and here you come. Trust me, if we can flip second halves for first halves, we will do that any day, but keep the second halves that we have been having. We will continue to work through it.”